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Many people will talk about ponzi schemes without actually thinking about what that actually means. They say that Ethereum will fail because it was founded on and funded by lies. But when it comes down to it, how are these different from that of the current central banking debt based fiat money system?

Fund first, ask questions later

Ethereum was a project funded with 18m USD of value mostly in BTC. After writing a whitepaper and creating a proof of concept prototype, they hired developers to write it. Most of them were loaned money and worked for free but were promised exorbitant 20% bonuses after the crowd-sale. They made a windfall after selling ETH before the blockchain was even in operation in what is called an initial coin offering or ICO to the public. Once the money was raised they patted themselves on the back, and all the developers who were promised pay in stock options (ETH) simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief and cheered.

Big news for ETH supporters as the DAO finally launched and have their token traded for the first time. After a day of trading, it seems the DAO tokens closed trading under par. (ETH value). What went wrong?

If you ask me, the DAO is an ambitious project. It makes Macbeth look like Ben Carson by comparison. In order to understand it to any degree, first you will need to gather some things:

Lock yourself into that dark place, and let nature take its course. If you need to, use the towel. After the elapsed time, you may emerge understanding DAO well enough to maybe want to put some money into it, or pray to it. At which point you really should stop what you are doing, and go to sleep (because let’s be frank here, you are probably drunk and hallucinating) and pick up again in a couple days time.